The girls are back! Ventral view

Have seen lots of the “boys” of this species lately, but this is the first female in five weeks.
» “Dorsal” view in extras

» Identified as Papilio glaucus or “Eastern Tiger Swallowtail”: BAMONA
» Species pages: [ BAMONA ] [ BugGuide ] [ UK Butterflies* ]

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* A single specimen was captured by a boy at Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland in late September (or early October) 1932 and is believed to have been accidentally imported from North America.

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July 7 posts
       “Extras”: “The girls are back! Dorsal view”
  1 year ago: No post
 2 years ago: “Milkweed sprouting”
 3 years ago: “Easter Tiger Swallowtail (Female)” (the light-morph, “yellow” variety!)
 4 years ago: “Pandemic Puzzle #8”
 5 years ago: “Why aren’t dryer cabinets the same? [Travel-day Filler]”
 6 years ago: “‘Bottlebrush Buckeye’ [Filler] ”
 7 years ago: “Pearl Crescent [Filler #47 — Another travel day]”
 8 years ago: “After 7½" of rain…”
 9 years ago: “But the Western conifer seed bugs seem to like it…”
10 years ago: “Queen Anne’s Lace”
11 years ago: “Papilio glaucus”
12 years ago: “Local history museum”
13 years ago: “Geek Toys III”

[Corinne C]

Fabulous close up

[Mags]

Lovely!

[Kathy]

Very nice.